Michael K. Young, president of the University of Washington, is expected to be named the sole finalist to become the next president of Texas A&M University, sources familiar with the decision told The Texas Tribune on Tuesday.

Though they appear to be universally outraged by President Barack Obama’s executive order affecting millions of undocumented immigrants, Texas Republican leaders are far from united on how to use their own power to police unauthorized workers and the employers who hire them.

State Sen. Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for Texas attorney general, violated the Texas Securities Act by soliciting investment clients without being registered as required by law, according to a disciplinary order made public Friday.

Abbott expressed outrage Hernandez allegedly referred to his wife as a 'prop'

Another front has opened up in the cultural war that the 2014 Texas governor's race is fast becoming.
This time it involves the fight for the growing Hispanic vote and Attorney General Greg Abbott's contention that Democrats are cynically using his Hispanic wife, Cecilia, against him.
The whole thing started in heavily Republican Lubbock, of all places.

Saying she'd "had enough," state Sen. Wendy Davis unloaded on Attorney General Greg Abbott on Tuesday night, blaming him and his allies for waging a smear campaign against her family and warning he had picked a fight with the "wrong Texas gal.

If state Sen. Wendy Davis gets into the race for Texas governor, abortion won't be the only hot-button social issue dividing the major candidates.
The topic of gun restrictions will spice things up, too.